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TIL the first unsuccessful state fair in the country was in Ann Arbor, MI in 1839

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NXnvE TIL: Umwelt, or the self-centered world of different organisms
ydKl TIL, that Charles Darwin was laid to rest in Westminster abbey. The highest honor the church could offer.
wLkyW TIL that the writer of the hymn "Amazing Grace" had an incredibly filthy mouth. During his time as a sailor he was: "admonished several times for not only using the worst words the captain had ever heard, but creating new ones to exceed the limits of verbal debauchery"
4kX85 TIL Pavlov's dog experiment was widely misunderstood because of mistranslation and misconstruction. Pavlov never used a bell to condition dogs to salivate, because a bell was an imprecise control. Instead he used tones, duration of tones and electric shock to study physiological reflexes.
Kn54 TIL that R.L. Stine, author of Goosebumps, never included things like divorce, drug use, and abuse because he didn’t “really want to terrify kids.” He wanted his stories to be strictly fantasy and kids to know that it couldn’t really happen.